Congress passes $1.1 trillion spending bill

Congress passes $1.1 trillion spending bill

(CNN) — The Senate on Thursday easily passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the government through September and sent it to President Barack Obama, a notable departure from chronic, partisan-fueled budget battles in recent years that included the government shutdown last October.

The decisive bipartisan vote, 72-to-26, concluded congressional action that for the first time since 2012 determined federal spending agency by agency instead of through temporary stopgap measures that spotlighted the divisiveness in Washington.

The House approved the budget measure on Wednesday in a strong bipartisan vote of 359-to-67.

“With very few exceptions we’ve heard nothing but positive comments from my colleagues here in the Senate,” Sen. Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican, said on the Senate floor as the vote neared.

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Congressmen were told they would not get donations for campaigns if this bill did not pass. All ignored the unemployed and those needing food. Now the push is to start a War with Iran for Israel as the US promised in 2006.